Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

Overview

This course provides an understanding of the demographic data framework and the processes which shape the population and includes practical exercises in the analysis of demographic data.

Workshop

1 day

People who use and/or need to understand demographic data.

• Understanding of the demographic data framework
• Understanding of the processed which shape the population
• Basic ability to analyse demographic data
  

• This is a one day interactive workshop on demographic statistics. The workshop provides an overview of demographic data with information on sources, methods of collection and production, and quality issues. Practical exercises using tools for demographic data are included
• Contemporary social and economic issues
• Population dynamics such as population momentum and ageing
• Individual components of population growth (births/fertility, deaths/mortality, internal and overseas migration), and how these components are used in the production of population estimates; and
• Population estimates and projections (including for Indigenous populations and small areas)
  

$745 (inc GST) per person, from 1 July 2013, $775 (inc GST) per person

For scheduled training courses see the ABS Training Calendar. We can also run the course in your organisation if you have sufficient numbers.

None

Please get in touch with the ABS Training Contact in your State/Territory.